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Cat Hicks @grimalkina@mastodon.social

3/14/2025, 6:57:04 PM

Public

Despite all the stereotypes, sometimes software gets the math wrong 💀

Why care about understanding how software metrics operate in the real world at scale? Because I see tech folks constantly talk big about using terrible aggregations that make no sense.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.05040

Cat Hicks @grimalkina@mastodon.social

3/14/2025, 6:57:20 PM

Public

Without empirical evidence at scale on this, I have held back many opinions for years. But now I have such evidence and I'm ready to say: many approaches are NOT measuring software work with the care it deserves or frankly even basic statistical reasoning

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